stodgy
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(s) heavy and starchy and hard to digest
- stodgy food
- a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full
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(s) (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned
- moss-grown ideas about family life
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(s) excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull
- why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor?
- a stodgy dinner party